Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
The existence and use of standard test collections in information retrieval experimentation allows results to be compared between research groups and over time. Such comparisons, ...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...